I-I feel like, [ an inhale, short and breathy, but falco manages enough with an exhale. he's pale and shaky, but that isn't much news to him— what is, perhaps, is how his mouth waters, dries and waters again. ] I'm going to be sick.
[ he feels like he's going to lose his breakfast and lunch. luckily, that won't happen. his neck aches, where the double "s" mark at his nape strains and threatens to grow but is forced to shrink. as a reaction, his lack of an arm reaches to cup the spot, where, to childe's dismay, he realizes . . .
he's lost. his arm. falco gives it a blank stare, nodding slowly. okay. the gut instinct is to scream and panic. but he can't panic. it's fine. he'll actually be fine. ]
It's okay. It'll . . . It'll grow back.
[ he says, naturally. it should be natural. he lost an entire jaw back in santa rosita, but he hadn't actually been awake to see it. titan physiology. it'll just grow back, indeed. in about 5 seconds of trying to gaze up reassuringly at childe, falco passes out. knocked out cold. not from blood loss, not from exhaustion— but because he just saw his entire arm clean off.
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[ he feels like he's going to lose his breakfast and lunch. luckily, that won't happen. his neck aches, where the double "s" mark at his nape strains and threatens to grow but is forced to shrink. as a reaction, his lack of an arm reaches to cup the spot, where, to childe's dismay, he realizes . . .
he's lost. his arm. falco gives it a blank stare, nodding slowly. okay. the gut instinct is to scream and panic. but he can't panic. it's fine. he'll actually be fine. ]
It's okay. It'll . . . It'll grow back.
[ he says, naturally. it should be natural. he lost an entire jaw back in santa rosita, but he hadn't actually been awake to see it. titan physiology. it'll just grow back, indeed. in about 5 seconds of trying to gaze up reassuringly at childe, falco passes out. knocked out cold. not from blood loss, not from exhaustion— but because he just saw his entire arm clean off.
(it's okay; it actually is growing back.) ]